Allyson Friedman is an associate professor at Hunter College. She has faced significant backlash after a racist remark she made was caught on a live microphone during a Community Education Council (CEC3) meeting earlier this month. The comments were made on February 10. This was during a hybrid virtual meeting about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan […]
In one of America’s most iconic cities, a painful truth lingers: Black Chicagoans live, on average, 11 years less than their white neighbors. That’s not just a number. That’s thousands of birthdays missed, mothers gone too soon, children growing up without grandparents. It’s an emergency—and one that’s echoed in cities across the country. The roots […]